W.W. Norton will publish historian Pamela Nadell’s new book Antisemitism, an American Tradition, on October 14, 2025. In this book, already acclaimed as “the book the world needs now,” Pamela Nadell chronicles the history of this hatred of Jews and Jewish communities from colonial days to the present. Pamela Nadell is the author of America’s Jewish Women: A History from Colonial Times to Today, winner of the 2019 National Jewish Book Award “Jewish Book of the Year.”
On October 14, award-winning historian Pamela S. Nadell will appear at Politics and Prose Bookstore to launch her new book, Antisemitism, an American Tradition. Drawing on centuries of history, Nadell will examine how antisemitism has shaped American life and how Jewish Americans have resisted through activism, law, and solidarity.
Join Pamela Nadell, an award-winning author and member of the Tree of Life Advisory Board, for the Pittsburgh book launch of Antisemitism, an American Tradition. Tracing the long history of antisemitism in American history, Nadell shows the roots of the hatred that shattered Pittsburgh’s Jewish community and their neighbors.